[CPEO-BIF] Erie Community College eyes Buffalo, New York brownfield

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Buffalo brownfield eyed by ECC for training facility


by Dan Miner
Buffalo Business First (NY)
February 27, 2015

Erie Community College is preparing a SUNY 2020 Challenge Grant that  
would pave the way for a new workforce training center in a proposed  
East Side development park.

The Regional Workforce Training Center will already be supported by  
one source of state funds, the Buffalo Billion allocation. The  
center's goal will be to teach area residents the skills needed for  
today's manufacturers. It is viewed as a vital cog in the push to  
fill the regional skills gap, where unemployment and poverty are  
serious issues and yet manufacturers struggle to find qualified labor.

The proposed development park is also being supported by a Buffalo  
Billion funding package, totaling $6.7 million. The plan, called the  
Northland-Beltline Corridor, includes the creation of more than 50  
acres of shovel-ready land that could be home to more than 700,000- 
square-feet of commercial space.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2015/02/27/buffalo-brownfield- 
eyed-by-ecc-for-training.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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